MAJOR ALIEN PLANETS CIRCLE NEARBY STAR NEWS TECH SCIENCE ASTRONOMY SEARCH ENTERTAINMENT VIDEO STAR MIKE SENIOR WRITER ASTRONOMERS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SEVEN ALIEN WORLDS ORBIT LIFE AS WE KNOW IT STUDY ELSEWHERE SYSTEM PROBABLY OUR BEST AS OF PROFESSOR AT THE CENTER SPACE THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN EXOPLANETS THE STAR LIES EARTH MERE THROW IN COSMIC SCHEME SPECULATION THE ALIEN POTENTIAL SHOULD SOON HARD TEAM WORLDS EXPECT THE INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE REPORTERS ILLUSTRATION THE SURFACE PLANET HOSTS BIZARRE ALIEN DWARF STAR THE PLANET JUPITER TIMES DIMMER THE RESEARCH THE UNIVERSITY OF TRANSITING PLANETS PLANETESIMALS SMALL TELESCOPE INSTRUMENT THE LA SILLA OBSERVATORY EXPLAINS COMMON NAME THE OBJECT ALSO KNOWN AS 2MASS J230 TRAPPIST REGULAR THE TEAM INTERPRETED EVIDENCE PLANETS CROSSING THE FACE COLLEAGUES ANNOUNCED THE EXISTENCE THESE THREE SIZE OF EARTH DIAGRAM ORBITS GALILEAN MOONS VENUS KEPT NUMBER TELESCOPES ON THE GROUND WORK ACTUALLY CAUSED REVEALED POSSIBLE WORLDS OBSERVATION CAMPAIGN SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE IN SEPTEMBER HELPED CLEAR ALL OF THIS TRANSIT DATA CONFIRMED THREE WORLDS DETECTED SPITZER TOTAL SEVEN WORLDS PUBLISHED ONLINE TODAY THE JOURNAL NATURE PERCENT MASSIVE LARGEST OUR PLANET RESEARCHERS THE FIRST TIME KIND THE SAME STAR NEWS CONFERENCE OCCUPY LYING CLOSER MERCURY ORBITAL PERIODS RANGE DAYS THOUGHT COMPLETE JUST ONE PATH INNER PLANETS MEANING RELATED TO EACH RATIO SUGGESTS OUT IN WATER CURRENT THE VARIOUS ENOUGH DETERMINE HABITABLE THE SEVEN TIDALLY LOCKED ALWAYS SHOW FACE HOST MOON SHOWS POWERFUL GRAVITATIONAL NEIGHBORING HEAT INSIDES LEADING LOTS EXTREME CLOSENESS TIDAL LOCKING TO SEARCH COOL LIQUID WATER EXIST CLOSE POTENTIALLY ATMOSPHERES TRANSPORT THE DAY THE NIGHT SIDE MODELING PERFORMED HABITABLE ZONE POSSIBLE THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS WITH CONFIDENCE ALREADY HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE CHARACTERIZATION THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF OXYGEN METHANE HAVE TO WAIT INSTRUMENTS COME ONLINE BILLION JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE SLATED LAUNCH THE EUROPEAN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE THE GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE SCHEDULED TO COME THE EARLY THINK STEP TOWARD FINDING OUT THERE GASES SIMILAR THAT THAT MILLION YEARS CANNOT PRECISELY DWARFS GENERALLY LIVE FOR TO 5 TRILLION LONGER ROCKY PLANETS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ON ONE DAYTIME SKIES BRIGHTER JUST AFTER SUNSET LIGHT EVERYTHING SORT OF BE BEAUTIFUL NOW AND THEN ANOTHER PLANET MAYBE TWICE IN THE SKY FUTURE HELP COMMON EXOTIC IN THE SUN NECK THE STARS NEIGHBORHOOD VERY COOL STARS TARGETS OBSERVE IN THE FUTURE FOLLOW MIKE WALL TWITTER FOLLOW US FACEBOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ALIEN LIFE DISCOVER INFRARED UNIVERSE SPITZER TELESCOPE AUTHOR SCIENCE WRITER THE IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY INTERN THE SALINAS CALIFORNIAN SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR HERPETOLOGIST WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY DEGREE THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE CERTIFICATE SCIENCE WRITING THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA FIND PROJECT YOU CAN INFO ABOUT US CONTACT ADVERTISE CONTENT LICENSING TERMS OF USE COPYRIGHT POLICY PRIVACY POLICY REVIEWS GUIDE LAPTOP HARDWARE BUSINESS NEWS DAILY IT PRO LIVE SCIENCE ACTIVE JUNKY SHOPSAVVY ANANDTECH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED